Experiencing chronic stress day after day can produce physical and mental wear and tear and retard learning. However, acute stress — a  short stressful incident — may energise learning and memory, according to a recent study.

Researchers at the University of Buffalo (U-B) have shown that in mice acute stress can produce a beneficial effect [...]

Will the upper age limit on law students really produce quality lawyers?
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Content editor Durba Basu had always wanted to study law but life led her down a different path. The English literature graduate planned to retire at 45 and get her LLB degree. She wanted to then work full-time with the women’s rights non-governmental [...]

Look at the kinds of jobs that will be on offer in the US over the next five to 10 years
If you have a yen for going off to the US — as most of yesteryear’s IITians appear to have done — engineering should not be the career of choice any longer. The big thing [...]

What do you do when profanity rules the workplace? Lily Garcia advises
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A reader writes: “I have been hearing profanity about all manner of things, from work situations to unco-operative computers, as well as people who are not within earshot being called names. We know it is completely unprofessional and that there is an anger management [...]

Located in the IT hub of Calcutta is a management school with a difference. At the International School of Business and Media (ISB&M) students are assured of the best in management education and placement, says Gautam Ghosh, director. ISB&M, Pune, started in 2000 and the Calcutta centre came up in 2004. ISB&M, Calcutta, has more [...]

Indian tech students can now intern at Cern, the nuclear research institute in Geneva:-
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When Archana Sharma joined Cern (or the European Organisation for Nuclear Research), the world’s largest particle physics laboratory, as a permanent staff scientist in 2001 — the only Indian ever to do so — it was her proudest moment.
Cern hit the headlines [...]

Most offices have special programmes to help employees overcome their problems
About 20 per cent of the working population has issues that are serious enough to interfere with workplace performance. The idea is to tackle them early, and not wait until the problem has a visible impact on their work.
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As CEO of Homewood Employee Health, [...]

If you are interested in health science and computer technology and are looking for a people-oriented career, you could consider nuclear medicine technology. Nuclear medicine deals with the technique of medical imaging. It is a branch of medicine that is used for diagnosis as well as treatment of diseases. It uses radioisotopes to study the [...]

Improvement in the economic scenario will not necessarily mean more jobs, says Don Lee Lcjhh
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Even as the US economy begins clawing its way out of the worst recession in 60 years, there are growing signs that this recovery could come with an unsettling twist: the wheels of commerce may begin to turn again without any [...]

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Awakening the Inner Warrior ……
There are certain personality archetypes that we all carry within us, such as the inner child, the lover, and the mother. Some of these archetypes present themselves strongly, while others lay fallow. For example, there is an inner warrior in each one of us, but in some of us this warrior [...]